[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] north side of the stream, skirting it all the way round to the site of the old mill. One of these old horse-chestnut trees is still standing in the square, at the crossing of Dock Street and Warburton Avenue. It is a cherisned object to the city, and special care is taken to guard it from injury by keeping it boxed. Mr. Wells, in 1822, told Silas Cornell and Dr. Blood-good, of Flushing, L. I., who visited Yonkers to pro-cure horse-chestnuts from these trees, that he had counted the rings on one of them, which he had re-cently removed, and that they indicated that the tree vas sixty years old. He said he supposed it to have been imported from Europe by Colonel Philipse. This agreed with a statement made by Anthony Archer, who had been one of Colonel Philipse's employes, and who died in 1837, at ninety-two years of age.1 J We have the following notes of the Archers, who are a very old family in Yonkers : One Anthony Archer, about 1748. raine from New York, from the flat opposite McComh's, and settled in Yonkers. ne died about 17U of con-sumption. A few days before he died he requested his son Anthony to bury him within the ground now known as St. John's Cemetery. There were no graves there then. The old mnn mi the first buried in the grounds. The next wan a daughter ot Rev. Mr. Malxock. of St. John's; and the third was a child of Henry Kunyon, at the time a miller of the place. Anthony Archer (2d) was bom in 1741". and died about 1837, aged nearly ninety-two years.